Nodal harvest: Surgeon or pathologist?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 366-367

  Etzioni, David ^a   Spencer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; HEMICOLECTOMY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PATHOLOGIST; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 39749110834     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9113-3     Document Type: Letter

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